K J Kesselring

Making Murder Public

Homicide in Early Modern England, 1480-1680

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Produktbeschreibung

Making Murder Public explores the emergence, in the sixteenth century, of a formal distinction between murder and manslaughter and the significant reduction in the rates of homicides individuals perpetrated on each other.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 158mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780192863744
• ISBN-10: 0192863746
• Artikelnr.: 63766737

Autorenporträt

K.J. Kesselring is Professor of History at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the author of a series of articles and essays on homicide and criminal forfeiture, and books on Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State and The Northern Rebellion of 1569. She has also edited or co-edited collections on The Trial of Charles I, Married Women and the Law: Coverture in England and the Common Law World (with Tim Stretton), and Crossing Borders: Boundaries and Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Britain (with Sara M. Butler).

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Abbreviations and Conventions
* 1: Introduction
* 2: 'In Corona Populi': Early Modern Coroners and their Inquests
* 3: 'An Image of Deadly Feud': Recompense, Revenge, and the Appeal of
Homicide
* 4: 'That Saucy Paradox': The Politics of Duelling in Early Modern
England
* 5: 'For Publick Satisfaction': Punishment, Print, Plays, and Public
Vengenance
* Conclusion
* Appendix I: The Records and the Database
* Bibliography